ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organic Work, Cloning

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Eytan Lasry

Document Summary

Ap/adms 1000 lecture # 4 establishing the structure of business. Modern organizations: flat elimination of hierarchical layers. Increase decision-making speed: react faster to environmental changes, allow more responsibility to employees, provide lower-level employees more decision-making power. Side note: market changes faster than the structure. If you have a flatter organization, decisions are made faster and that way you can easily keep up with the market. If your environment is changing constantly, it"s better to use a flatter structure. Information sharing workers sharing knowledge with other workers in the organization to help better meet the organization"s goals and needs. Information sharing is an important component of the team-based approach: alliances outside the organization, global, greater competition, better access to new markets. Types of organizations: public/governmental, private/nongovernmental organization, private organization. What is an organization: social organizations are social entities. Interactive with their environment organization interact with the environment: goal-oriented organizations are created to achieve goals, structure-based organizations possess some sort of structure.